Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” (Syco Music/Columbia) is No. 1 on the
Billboard album chart for a fifth week, racking up another 510,000 sales,
according to Nielsen SoundScan. She is the first artist in the 53-year history
of the chart to have a debut album open No. 1 and stay in that position for
the following four weeks. Ms. Boyle has sold a total of 2,982,000 albums,
trailing Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” (Big Machine) by only 175,000 as the best-
selling title of 2009, with one week of sales left for the year. (SoundScan’s
year officially ends on Sunday.)